impalementation:impalementation:xander versus male authority in restlessthere’s stuff to probably ge
impalementation:impalementation:xander versus male authority in restlessthere’s stuff to probably get into with xander’s dream in restless and the way it has lots of adult male figures who can’t help him snyder says ominous gobbledegook giles ether speaks in french or decides to teach spike instead and his father yells at him from an unapproachable height xander’s dream constantly repeats the question ‘where are you going’ and i think the idea is that his notions of manhood and masculinity can’t help him with that he has to figure out how to be his own version of a man and i think you can take that idea and extend it to the whole season interpret it as the characters not just rebelling against controlling (and often masculine) authority but trying to figure out what it means to have authority over oneself outside of that paradigm (from this post) -- source link
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